I am currently working on a 360 tour for my school. ( I dont have kr pano as we do it for non profit)

Well, here is what I was able to do. I am very low on resources so, could rent a fish eye, just for a day. and I had to photograph the entire 7 floors of the building.however this is just the draft copy. I am looking ahead to rent it for few more days and redo.

The animation shows 9 areas in the building.

Known problems : 1. out of focus in certain places ( that was the first time I ever used a fish eye)2. I shot in Av mode so, some areas have exposure problem.3. No post-processing was done to the spherical images, as I am still in the phase of buying photoshop elements 7

So, After rendering the panos for this project I converted them into images of size 10000 px wide. Then, I just increased the canvas height wise to make it 2:1

Then imported the panos to tour weaver, and made it 360x180 degrees. So, the nadir area is not a big black spot. To eliminate the spot all together i decreased the vertical view to aprox 160 degrees but for some reason the view gets severely affected and looses originality.( i dont have better words to describe it ) however, because of the vertical offset the top view was getting chopped off..

i played with settings for a while, and could not figure it out..

in-short I want to eliminate the nadir altogether.

I am still learning to please do not hesitate to rant or ask me for any more info..

Not much of an 'advert' for a business school if it can't afford a few hundred dollars for software is it? wink

Where does Tourweaver come into it - it seems you have used krpano?

hello mediavets,

I am very new to this subject of creating 360 degree panoramas and since I did not getting the desired result ( as I dont know hoe to use it efficiently) I was trying some alternative tools. however "tour weaver" is not related to APG ( what was i thinking?)

You can see that, I just have to render it and export flash using auto pano tour. You can also observe that, the portions I dint cover - the area where the tripod was and the area above me, were chopped off and what is displayed is the final view.

The above pano was made using a EF 18-55mm lens.

So, I rented our a fisheye lens for a day and took the spherical panoramas of my school. which are 360 X 150 .

What I understood from the workflow of APT is that.....for example... if I had to chop off 30 degrees of view from the nadir, the software chops away 30 degrees of view from the zenith ( is this correct ?) However if I make the offset value to be zero, I get a distorted view at the zenith.

I highly appreciate your patience to go through 101 questions like these.

sjosyula wrote:Incase of picture 3, the nadir area is included, ( a big black spot) but the zenith is perfect.

You ALWAYS need to have a 2:1 image to get a non-distorted sphere. If you donÂ´t integrate a nadir you donÂ´t get a 2:1 image rendered.

So there are 2 ways to solve the problem:

1) open the rendered image in Photoshop and expand the canvas to 2:1. This way you get a black nadir hole which you can retouch in the bottom-cubeface.2) you can crop the image in APG. This way the ratio is written in the EXIFs. APT reads the EXIFs and sets a vertical offset so that you get a sphere - which has a limited downlook angle but no distortions.

You can see that, I just have to render it and export flash using auto pano tour. You can also observe that, the portions I dint cover - the area where the tripod was and the area above me, were chopped off and what is displayed is the final view.

The above pano was made using a EF 18-55mm lens.

So, I rented our a fisheye lens for a day and took the spherical panoramas of my school. which are 360 X 150 .

What I understood from the workflow of APT is that.....for example... if I had to chop off 30 degrees of view from the nadir, the software chops away 30 degrees of view from the zenith ( is this correct ?) However if I make the offset value to be zero, I get a distorted view at the zenith.

I highly appreciate your patience to go through 101 questions like these.